A garden to smell the flowers

Former MAB executive council member Godfrey Ooi, 66, smelling jejarum flowers at the TNB-MAB sensory garden at the MAB complex here yesterday. NORAFIFI EHSAN / The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Godfrey Ooi, 66, moved excitedly through Malaysia’s first sensory garden, stopping at each one to feel the plants and read their names aloud to his two friends.

Ooi, however, was not reading the signs with his eyes. Rather, the senior citizen, who has been blind since birth, was using his sense of touch to name the plants.